The third installment of our podcast, Digital Campus, is now available online. In this installment, Dan, Tom, and I discuss April Fool’s pranks online, including one that made the rounds of academia for a while (the false report that Google had bought OCLC). The main theme of the ‘cast is a discussion of cyberinfrastructure in…
Tag: Academic Commons
A One Way Ticket To Minsk
Last fall I wrote about the Florida history standards, pointing out that they could just as easily (and perhaps more appropriately) have been written in Minsk than in Tallahassee. This is your chance to sound off on this issue, as a petition drive is now afoot to try to convince the Florida Legislature to reconsider…
Transforming Quantitative History?
History bloggers have had a lot to say recently about social networking and what the various applications of this particular aspect of the Web 2.0 world will mean for the history business. I’ve been fairly optimistic about it all, but without a clear vision of how, exactly, social networking might really revolutionize some aspect of…
Turning Points in a Career
Historians are fond of looking for “turning points” in the past–pivotal moments after which things began to change for the better or the worse. Last month I spent two days at a valedictory conference for my friend and colleague Stan Katz, historian, mentor, and public citizen. As I listened to all the tributes to Stan…